Todd, I just want to say thank you for being so generous with your knowledge, may you always be abundantly blessed. For there are a number of people like me, struggling and begging for help, with no money, or we wouldn’t be trying. Anyways, Thank you again.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. This sample campaign is incredibly valuable and is very much appreciated by newbies such as myself. Many many thanks.

In your description of how you got started —-you said you wrote articles and got started by going to ezinearticles.com BUT you didnt say what you did there .

Hi Anonymous …

I assume you’re referring to lesson to, the campaign outline?

To answer your question, there really is only one thing you can do at ezinearticles.com and that is submit articles you wrote. Ezinearticles.com is an article directory which will publish your article once it’s submitted.

Lesson 6 on article writing and article directories goes into this much more.

hope this helps

Hey Todd, I’m a member at WA and I read about you in the forum. Just checkin our your site. I am making this much money right now: $0

Glad you found success. Maybe I’ll sign up for your course. Are you in Vancouver? I’m on the Island!!

Hey mickey,
That WA forum post has definitely generated a lot of attention. Just keep at it and in no time you’ll be rolling in cash. It’s all about focus.

I am in vancouver but thinking of moving to whistler. Not sure yet.

cheers,
todd

Great Todd! I’m ready to learn it from you, sir. That’s a very generous of you to share with us the knowledge.

Thanks a lot.

Hi Todd,

First, thanks for creating this course. It’s great.

One problem though, I dont seem to be getting the lessons with any regularity. The last one I received was #7, and that was many weeks ago…(I’ve also only been receiving sporadic lessons - i.e. a number have been skipped, but I’ve found the ones I missed previously via the links in the later emails).

Is there anyway to find all the lessons so I can catch up?

Thanks again!
Carrick

Hey Carrick,

In about 1 week I’ll be shipping lesson 8 on integrating your blog into the campaign. Then the following week I’ll be releasing the lesson on how to effectively use an opt-in list (mailing list). The mailing list questions is probably one of the most important one as far as revenue goes.

sorry for the delay in the lessons but I’m been unavoidably delayed on my work but all is back to normal now.

cheers

Awesome - thanks…..didn’t realize you were still working on the lessons (it seemed by the dates, that this was a lesson that had already been created)…so, all’s good…

Cheers,
Carrick

P.S. You didn’t happen to live in Edmonton or Calgary at any point, did you? Your name’s not particularly familiar, but your photo is…maybe you just have one of ‘those faces’….

Hi Todd,

Just wondered if lesson #8 made it out or not yet….I’ve noticed the mail delivery isn’t consistent, so I may simply have missed it…

As always, thanks in advance!
Carrick

I’m really disappointed Todd. I signed up for your ecourse in March, and you never finished it. Got lesson #7 in April, and that was the end of it.

I was enjoying it up till then, and learning something too. Will you ever finish the sequence?

Signed… Still Hopeful!

Thanks Todd for a great course. I’ve been trying to make my first affiliate sale for nearly 2 years. I will definitely give your campaign outline a go.

With regards to ezinearticles, on average how many articles do you normally submit for each product. You mentioned 9 for your first campaign - have you found you can do less and still get the same amount of traffic? Also, do you use different aliases for the articles you write for each product you market?

Do you think it’s ok to rewrite PLR stuff for the articles that can also be used to make up your bonus. I’m not particularly good at coming up with new stuff for each article about the same subject matter.

Thanks again
Wendy

@Wendy -
Hi Wendy, thanks for giving my course a try. I think you’ll be pretty happy if you stick with it.

The average number of articles I write for a campaign can vary significantly. It really depends on a lot of factors. How well the articles are written, how well the landing page converts, how competitive the niche is.

Some articles I might only get 10% of the readers clicking through while others can get up to 40%. A good article that intrigues the reader to want more, along with a call to action in the bio box can make a big difference.

After you get the click through from the article you need a landing page that will convert them, or get them to click through to the sales page of the product you’re marketing. This is where a lot of testing can help. Landing page testing and optimization will help you figure out what’s working and what’s not working. For this you need to ensure you have maintianed their interest and intrigued them to want to learn more by going to the product page. And just like the article, you need a call to action to make them do so.

You really have to TELL them to click through. Tell them CLICK HERE.

People do what they’re told if you’ve captured their interest or imagination.

I’m going over this just to show you the many places in a campaign that come into play and the reason an average number of articles is not easy to pin down. Improvements in any of these areas can improve your campaign and therefore require less article for traffic.

As far as using PLR, I don;t like it but you can do it. I’m going to talk a bit more about it in the next Q&A for the course which will be shipped tomorrow.

Just be sure you rewrite them sufficiently enough to be unique and on topic. make them specific to your situation so they don’t sound like PLR.

thanks for the comment and for stopping by.
cheers,
todd

Hey Todd, Before I started this course, I did not have a clear understanding of “exactly” what I needed to do. I needed somebody to “draw me a picture”. I am very grateful to you for creating such a comprehensive course. I am in the midst of a campaign as you outlined and I was page 2 in 10 hours, page 1 in 34 hours, and I am still in the early phases! I am fired up because now I KNOW I can do this! They say you never forget your first campaign. It’s so cool when determination pays off. THANKS!!

Yesterday afternoon I got to your site that said. “Welcome to The Long Tail Treasure… And thank you for confirming your desire to succeed with affiliate marketing! I’m thrilled you’ve decided to join me. Very shortly you should receive an email with the links to the course material”.

Unfortunatly no email with links to the course have shown up. Please send the email again.

Bob

Hi, i recently started your course and really like the srtucture you have put out, every time i started an affiliate program i would just throw my money at PPC and never really make any thing from it. I have lost so much money over the years via affiliate programs. Thanks or making such a cool walk through.

I am however stuck on a few things. I have signed up to everything you asked me to in the walk through. I just dont get how advertise each bit to get each person onto my Blog then from my blog to my article etc.. I am lost here please can we have some personal contact via **edited to hide from spam bots**

Thanks

Adam Roe

Hey Todd!

I got a link to your site from a fellow WA member (and in time I got used to trusting WA members), but I still have one question about the course. I had some success in IM, but I was basically struggling with finding good keywords all the time. Recently I got that figured out and now I feel I’m ready to make some real money. I decided to make some changes regarding the blog platform (I was using Blogger) and email marketing, due to the constant reminding from everyone in the business that “money is in the list”.

Here’s the question about the course: let’s say I have couple of dozens of related keywords ready for a campaign. Do I use your system for every one of those like this:
KW1 -> article A -> lens A -> blog A,
KW2 -> article B -> lens B -> blog B
KW3 -> article C -> lens C -> blog C …etc…

or like this:
KW1 -> article A -> lens A -> blog A
KW2 -> article B -> lens A -> blog A
KW3 -> article C -> lens A -> blog A …etc…

The first concept would be somewhat time-consuming because I am still not what you may call a seasoned blog maker, so I kind of hope you will point to this second one.

Thanx in advance,

dean

Hi Todd. It’s a good thing we have people like you to share knowledge with us. Thank you. I am trying the affiliate marketing thing and so far nothing. But reading your site I have regained confidence. Again thank you.